Bug#370302: [Pkg-cryptsetup-devel] Bug#370302: a better recommendation for cryptdisks.functions

[David Härdeman]

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 10:23:51PM +0200, Jonas Meurer wrote:
>On 04/06/2006 David Härdeman wrote:
>> Why not change the semantics of /etc/crypttab so that the third column 
>> (keyfile) is interpreted as a script if the file exists and has the 
>> executable bit set. If so, the script is executed and its stdout is 
>> piped to cryptsetup via stdin.
>> 
>> Sounds ok?
>
>yes, sounds like a nice feature, but i'm not sure whether implementing
>more non-obvious features is good.
>and adding one more option for the options field in /etc/crypttab is more
>obvious than extending the usage of the keyfile field.
>also, the keyfile still needs to be passed to the script, otherwise you
>need an own script for every encrypted disk.

Good point. I agree...